For immediate release
01 July 2024
MARKET PURCHASE OF COMPANY’S OWN SHARES
The Company announce that it has today purchased 197,743 of its own shares (“Ordinary Shares”) at a price of 837.80 pence per Ordinary Share. Such shares will be held in treasury by the Company.
The transaction was made pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 23 January 2024.
Following this transaction, the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the Company in treasury is 47,316,679; the total number of Ordinary Shares that the Company has in issue, less the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the Company in treasury following such purchase, and therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 177,674,624.
The figure of 177,674,624 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculations of interests in the Company’s voting rights in accordance with the FCA’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary
For further information, please contact:
Victoria Hale
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: 020 3 170 8732